Widescreen Gaming Forum

Time for newb check-in. To be clear I'm a newb to the boards and to multi monitor gaming but I'm not a newb to gaming. I've been playing video games for about 35 yrs. and making them for 17 yrs.

I joined up because I upgraded my PC as my previous one was getting long in the tooth (6 years old). I decided to create a system to handle widescreen gaming because it looked really cool and figured if I was going to do it I should do it to excess.

I ended up with:
- Intel I7 5820K w/ Cooler Master 120V
- Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC mobo
- 16 gigs DDR4
- 1 TB SSD
- 2 TB 7200 RPM HDD
- (3) EVGA GTX980s in SLI mode.
- EVGA 1200 watt power supply
- Antec Nine Hundred Series case
- (3) Benq GW2765HT monitors

It's a bit of overkill but I wanted to future proof it a bit and I think I've succeeded within my budget. We also had to get my wife a new PC so that was part of the overall budget.

That's all for now. Look forward to participating in discussions here.

Hi Matt


1TB SSD that definitely falls into the category excess. xD

Let's hope you enjoy wide screen gaming and all your future games will support it

Looks sick, except the motherboard is the wrong chipset.

woopdudoop wrote:Looks sick, except the motherboard is the wrong chipset.

Yes you are correct. I referenced the mobo for a previous iteration of the system. I'm not building it myself but instead having a local business do it.

This system started with just an i5 and single GTX980 but incrementalism creeped in and the thing just snowballed.

The motherboard I ended up with is the Gigabyte GA-X99 Gaming 5